Warm-up: Think about one of

the stories you have read this

year. What was it’s theme?

How did the author explore

that theme in the text?

1.Write the title of the text.2. What was the theme?3. How did the author explore this theme in the text?

Power On: Today’s

meet!If you have a device that connects to the internet

via a wifi connection (xxxxxx), you can participate

in an online discussion during this class session.

Go to http://todaysmeet.com/MrsWiggins and

write your comments, questions or observations.

Standard: ELACC6RL9: Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.

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Essential Question?

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.” ― Julian Barnes

How can reading deepen our understanding about life?

Focus Questions?

How do the two texts (poem and short story) approach similar themes?

How does the understanding of vocabulary in the text help the reader to understand theme?

Listen to the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling

http://youtu.be/8qwmKVuM3k8

Group Assignment

Read the stanza or lines assigned to your group. 1. Define any words or

phrases you do not know or understand.

2. Analyze your part of the poem

3. What theme is developed in your part of the poem?

If you can keep your head when all about you are loosing theirs and blaming it on you

1. “loosing theirs” is figurative language to say that people seem to be acting in a strange or unusual manner.

2. If is conditional . It usually comes in a cause and effect statement. Keep your head – remain calm in chaos and not listen to unwarranted blame or hate…

3. Some sort of directions – Have faith in yourself?

Example:

VENN DIAGRAM

Hatchet:Examples

Commontheme

If: Examples

Have faith in Yourself.

Create a Poem Pictorial to reflect the development of Theme

View this example of Poem Pictorial Project:

http://youtu.be/9jdkaLCGM5k

There is a catch…. Your pictures should show events from Hatchet that support the same theme. For example, in the poem “If” Kipling states that Keeping and remaining calm is a characteristic of becoming a man. This characteristic is obvious when Brian….. Our picture shows this scene with the words “If you can keep your head when all about you are loosing theirs and blaming it on you…. “

Creating your “poem” picture using your

assigned part of the poem

3. Write the words from the

poem “If” on the picture.

2. Draw the picture from the

Hatchet example

1. Identify how Kipling and

Paulsen developed a similar

theme

Focus Questions?

How do the two texts (poem and short story) approach similar themes?

How does the understanding of vocabulary in the text help the reader to understand theme?

Essential Question?

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.” ― Julian Barnes

How can reading deepen our understanding about life?

Standard: ELACC6RL9: Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.

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